Zithulele Sinqe

Zithulele Sinqe was a South African long distance runner, born in Mthatha in 1963, who emerged in the 1980s as one of the world leading marathon and half marathon athletes despite apartheid restrictions. He won the South African marathon championships in 1986 in 2:08:04, a lifetime best, in a narrow race with Willie Mtolo, and won again in 1987. In July 1987 he ran 1:00:11 for the half marathon, the joint best time in the world that year with Matthews Temane. He did not finish the marathon at the 1992 Olympics and won the Detroit Free Press Marathon in 1998. Later in his career he turned to the 56 kilometre Two Oceans Ultra Marathon, which he won in 1996 and 1997 and finished second in 1998. He died in 2011.